Reviews

Reviews of Lost Girls

"Kolker’s handling of these cases — and his treatment of five women who turned up dead after disappearing between 2007 and 2010 — is anything but lurid. With writing that is spare, almost muted, Kolker details the women’s childhoods and choices, tracing their steps from such scattered towns as Groton, Conn.; Ellenville, N.Y.; and Wilmington, N.C., through a series of low-paying jobs (cleaning offices, delivering pizzas, running a cash register), to working as prostitutes in the Internet age, advertising on Craigslist and making $4,500 a week or more. Through Kolker’s sensitive telling, these five women become people in full, as likable and unlikable as most people you meet, but with more to overcome."

Lost Girls

A haunting and humanizing chronicle of prostitution in
the 21st century, and the compelling true-life investigation of a serial killer
still at-large on Long Island. A new nonfiction book by author Robert Kolker, published by HarperCollins.